Jose Toha

Jose Toha (6 February 1927-15 March 1974) was Minister of the Interior of Chile from 1970 to 1972 (succeeding Edmundo Perez Zujovic and preceding Alejandro Rios) and Minister of Defense from 1972 to 1973 (succeeding Alejandro Rios and preceding Clodomiro Almeyda).

Biography
Jose Toha Gonzalez was born on 6 February 1927 in Chillan, Chile, the son of a Spanish immigrant. From 1950 to 1951 he was president of the student federation at the University of Chile, and from 1960 to 1970 he was the majority owner of the Ultima Hora newspaper. He became a member of the central committee of the Socialist Party of Chile, and on 11 September 1973 he was arrested by Augusto Pinochet's Chilean Army during the Chilean Revolution. Toha was repeatedly tortured at Dawson Island at the basement of the Air Force War Academy, and on 15 March 1974 the army hanged him in his closet, murdering him while claiming that it was a depression-influenced suicide.